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apart

UK/əˈpɑːt/ US/əˈpɑɹt/ common

adverb

1.

separated or at a distance in place or position or time

  • “These towns are many miles apart”
  • “stood with his legs apart”
  • “born two years apart”
2.

not taken into account or excluded from consideration

  • “these problems apart, the country is doing well”
  • “all joking aside, I think you”
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3.

away from another or others

  • “they grew apart over the years”
  • “kept apart from the group out of shyness”
  • “decided to live apart”
4.

placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

  • “had a feeling of being set apart”
  • “quality sets it apart”
  • “a day set aside for relaxing”
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5.

one from the other

  • “people can”
6.

into parts or pieces

  • “he took his father”
  • “;”
  • “;”
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adjective

1.

remote and separate physically or socially

  • “existed over the centuries as a world apart”
  • “preserved because they inhabited a place apart” W.H.Hudson
  • “tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization”
  • “an obscure village”
2.

not living together as man and wife

  • “decided to live apart”
  • “maintaining separate households”
  • “they are separated”
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3.

having characteristics not shared by others

  • “scientists felt they were a group apart” Vannever Bush
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Origin

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

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